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In the light of the Craig-and-Whitaker analysis, which dovetailed in the similarity of their venom, the details might, he fancied with a lifting of his brows, be classified under three general headings: youth, irresponsibility and a romantic attitude toward the truth. The envious charge of youth he attributed instantly to the thinning of John Whitaker's grayish hair, and felt better.
And when panting and sweating he had swept them all away with a wedge of cheese he seemed to hear Whitaker's voice calling him a failure. Kenny felt that he had been visited by Far Darrig, the Gaelic bringer of bad dreams. Spring came early and with the first marsh hawk Brian was on the road, his eager youth crying out to the spring's hope and laughter. Everywhere he caught the thrill of it.
"The heart of you!" said Kenny, biting his lips. "I don't deserve it. Lad, dear, the sunsets are past. I'm understandin'. And if you want Whitaker's job, I I'm willing. If you'd rather come back to the studio and free-lance, I I want you to know " he gulped "that things are different. There's order there and the the chairs are cleared.
"Tell Whitaker, do," begged Kenny. "There's one he missed. Garry, what's back of all this turmoil? What's the real reason for Brian's brain-storm? I'm sick to death of Whitaker's wordy arabesque and abuse. I want facts." "Brian said it all last night," reminded Garry. "It's just another case of a last straw."
I've just been to my room for Whitaker's Almanack, wherewith a certain Don Walter Hart purposes flooring him." Wally Hart had, indeed, succeeded in running to earth the Argentine magnate, and was giving Winter a most uncomfortable quarter of an hour. "Ha!" shouted Hart, when Furneaux came in with Peters. "Here's the pocket marvel who'll answer any question straight off.
An illustrated advertisement-book of hotels brought me very low indeed; and when it came to the local paper, I could have wept. At this point I found a passing solace in a copy of Whitaker's Almanack, and obtained in fifty minutes more information than I have yet been able to use. Then a fresh apprehension assailed me. Suppose Bellairs had given me the slip?
No fault of mine, Max," he added, "if Jan comes down here and eats your cheese. He's a cheese lunatic. Blame Tony. He comes into my studio, does a Pied Piper stunt on his fiddle and the whole building appears." To Whitaker's amusement nobody heeded Kenny's petulance. Caesare was already building a wood-fire in the fireplace, complaining of the chill.
Her dreams that night were endless and uneasy; she rose heavy and unrested, and went at once to the study of Whitaker's Almanac. A Forsyte is instinctively aware that facts are the real crux of any situation. She might conquer Jon's prejudice, but without exact machinery to complete their desperate resolve, nothing would happen.
There were even such books of reference as the London Directory, the "Red" and "Blue" books, Whitaker's Almanac, the Army and Navy Lists, and it somehow gladdened my heart to see it, the Law List. Whilst I was looking at the books, the door opened, and the Count entered. He saluted me in a hearty way, and hoped that I had had a good night's rest. Then he went on.
Children should always assume that their fathers have mysterious stores of money, and that nothing is beyond their resources, and if they don't rise to every demand it's only because in their inscrutable wisdom they deem it better not to. Or it may be from mere cussedness." "Yes," said Sissie. "That's what I used to think when I was young. But I've looked up your salary in Whitaker's Almanac."
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